Chapter 5 Ready to Fly
Although the SAM-7 missile is one figure higher than the SAM-6 missile, it does not mean that it is superior to the SAM-6. Both are weapons of different classes.
The SAM-6 is a medium-range surface-to-air missile that is more than five meters long and has a range of up to 25 kilometers, while the SAM-7 is a shoulder-fired short-range missile that is more than one meter long and has a range of 4,000 meters, and is used for individual air defense.
When Zhang Feng saw the missile box of the Nasam-7, he was immediately overjoyed.
This kind of missile has also achieved very good results. In August 1969, the SAM-7 anti-aircraft missile was put into combat for the first time, and Egypt used it to shoot down six Israeli planes during a battle in the Suez Canal area. In the Fourth Middle East War, Egypt and Syria used eight self-propelled SAM-7 anti-aircraft missiles to hit Israeli low-altitude planes and helicopters helicopters, causing the Israeli army to lose 78 planes within a week of the war, thus making a great contribution to the Arab army's initiative in the early stage of the war.
But why didn't that damn Warich tell himself that he had such a weapon?
"Warikh." Zhang Feng shouted loudly.
"Yes, Sir Qusay." Varih was running profusely, and an anti-aircraft gun had broken down, and he was nervously repairing it.
"There are Sam-7 missiles, why don't you tell me?"
"Your Excellency Qusay, this kind of missile can only be used by the people of the missile battalion, they are not there, we will not use it." Warich said with an innocent face.
It seems that the training of the Iraqi armed forces is too simple, and this kind of thing should be used by everyone. In later generations, even terrorists would use it, and in 03 they hit an Airbus plane, creating a precedent for attacking civilian aircraft.
Zhang Feng looked at those missiles and was very disappointed, leaving two for his own use, and letting the truck pull back the rest.
He opened the packing box, immediately started to assemble it, turned on the hot battery, turned on the power for self-inspection, connected the air conditioner, checked the gas volume, and when the time came, the missile could not be ejected, and he would have to blow it up.
Warish was stunned: "Your Excellency Qusay, how come you can even use this kind of missile?" ”
"I've even been on a nuclear submarine, let alone this little MANPAD." Zhang Feng buried his head and said.
The continuous ultra-low altitude flight is a moment to test the endurance of the pilot.
At this moment, the flight control system cross-linked with the terrain has not yet been studied, otherwise, the use of the plug-in navigation and terrain matching pod, with the fly-by-wire system, can hand over the flight task to the computer to complete.
Raz looked at his watch and at 5:10 p.m., he had entered Iraqi airspace.
Behind them, a falcon-shaped formation of three F-16 fighters and Raz's plane was flying rapidly at a low altitude, and then backwards, four other F-16 fighters, led by Nahumi, formed a second formation, flying almost close to the ground.
Flying at Mach 0.8 at a height of only 30 meters above the ground, it is simply dancing with death.
Due to the abandonment of the auxiliary fuel tank, the speed reached Mach 0.8 without afterburner, and if the afterburner was turned on, it could break through the speed of sound at low altitude, and everywhere it went, the houses on the ground would be collapsed by the sonic boom.
The third group is six F-15 fighters, and soon, they will climb high and take on the task of stopping the opposing fighters.
The choice of time has been carefully considered, and at this time, the nearby Iraqi air base is preparing for dinner, which is the most lax time. And after the bombing is completed, you can also use the night to return home.
Raz glanced at it, under the wings, hanging the weapon of the bombing: MK84 907 kg bomb, this is an ordinary gliding bomb without guidance ability, however, this kind of bomb weighs nearly one ton, after being dropped from a height of thousands of meters, it can smoothly smash through the steel shell of the nuclear reactor, and the delayed fuse will ensure that the bomb explodes in the reactor, causing complete damage to the reactor, and it is the heaviest bomb that the active Air Force fighter can mount. After more than a year of repeated practice, the pilots in the squadron were able to ensure that such bombs were accurately dropped on the nuclear reactor.
Another advantage is that after the bomb is dropped, the plane can climb high and quickly leave the battlefield, while the laser-guided bomb must always let the laser shine on the nuclear reactor, and the longer the exposure, the greater the possibility of loss.
With one of these bombs on each side, the plane struggled to fly, and when the bomb was dropped, it was as light as a fighting falcon.
On the wingtip slides on both sides, two AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles are mounted for self-defense.
However, the possibility of encountering enemy planes is very small, and they have not attracted the attention of the Iraqi air defense network at all along the way, and they must not have known that they are coming, and when they give them a dazzling salute, Saddam Hussein's old face must have been so surprised.
Besides, in a few minutes, the six F-15s of the third group will quickly climb high, ready to take away air supremacy and shoot down Iraqi fighters at any time to cover their own bombing operations.
The F-15 is a pure air supremacy fighter, with two F100-Pwww.xstxt.org-7F Sparrows, two AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles, and an ALQ-119 electronic countermeasures pod to solve those MiG-21s and MiG-23s in Iraq, which is effortless at all.
Colonel Bahari, piloting the F-15 fighter jet, looked at the information provided by the navigation and knew that he had reached a predetermined position forty kilometers west of Baghdad.
"F-15 fighter squadron, begin to climb." Bahari broke the radio silence.
As he spoke, he turned on the afterburner of the engine and pulled the longitudinal rod back with his right hand.
The powerful push back felt again, and the fighter was like a awakened beast, piercing the sky.
In the process of climbing, the F-15 fighters began to make a planned turn, and 6 F-15s were divided into 3 twin formations, turned on the radar and flew towards the predetermined three volley points.
The first formation is responsible for the bases of Habaniyah (Tamuz) and Al Takadum, the second is responsible for the bases of Al Mosana and Al Rashid in Baghdad, and the third group patrols near the Salman Parker base. All three bases, all of which have Iraqi fighter squadrons stationed, pose the greatest threat to bombing formations.
"Your Excellency Qusay, there are planes!" Warich said.
"Don't worry about them, that's an F-15 air superiority fighter, and we're going to fight, it's an F-16." Zhang Feng said calmly. "Order down, increase vigilance, no one is allowed to fire in advance, if the target is exposed, military law will deal with it!"
The F-16 is loaded with nearly a ton of bombs, which pose a lethal threat to nuclear reactors, and the most powerful weapon on the F-15 is the Sparrow medium-range air-to-air missile, as long as the F-16 is eliminated, those F-15s will be useless.
Now that the opposing covering fighters have climbed and begun to provide battlefield cover, the F-16, which is responsible for the bombing, is also about to fly.
The F-15 must have turned on the afterburner and flew quickly to the war zone, while the F-16 was carrying a large bomb and flying at a low altitude with dense air, the speed was not fast, and in a few minutes, it could be reached.
Zhang Feng felt a burst of excitement in his heart, and the consciousness of being a warrior in his body was slowly awakening, and the blood was still not cold.
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